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Globalisation and Change in Forest Ownership and Forest Use

Abstract

In this chapter, changes that have taken place on an overarching level in society, such as globalisation, supranational agencies, privatisation and restitution, are discussed from the forest owners’ perspective. The forces influencing forest owners and forest ownership as described in Chap. 2 in this volume are scrutinised and interpreted here on a micro level. Urbanisation, economic restructuring, demographic change and new ownership constellations are both drivers and consequences of changes in lifestyles, forest owner identity, place attachment and attitudes to the forest resource.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Urbanisation : “the process of the formation and growth of cities”, and “The change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas.” Ruralisation: “The process of making rural” (http://www.wordsense.eu/ruralization/, accessed 8 August 2016).

    The Eurostat classification of areas into urban versus rural is based on a classification of grid cells of 1 km. To be labelled urban the cells should fulfil two conditions: a population density of at least 300 inhabitants per km2 and a minimum population of 5000 inhabitants in contiguous cells above the density threshold. The other cells are considered as rural. A further distinction is made between predominantly urban areas and intermediate urban areas, where the former refers to a city of more than 500,000 inhabitants representing at least 25 per cent of the regional population (Eurostat 2017).

  2. 2.

    As there are 329,541 individual owners but 229,802 forest estates, the average owner can be regarded as the owner of 35 hectares of productive forest land and 8 hectares of non-productive forest land (Swedish Forest Agency 2014, pp. 31–33).

    Forest land, according to established criteria, can produce an average of 1 cubic metre of timber per hectare per year (Swedish Forest Agency 2014, p. 341).

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    Kerstin Westin, Louise Eriksson & Katarina Haugen

  2. Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

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  3. Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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Westin, K., Eriksson, L., Lidestav, G., Karppinen, H., Haugen, K., Nordlund, A. (2017). Individual Forest Owners in Context. In: Keskitalo, E. (eds) Globalisation and Change in Forest Ownership and Forest Use. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57116-8_3

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